Press Announcements

Students from GW's Planet Forward Campus Consortium, a digital storytelling collaborative housed within theSchool of Media and Public Affairs, now have the opportunity to have their writing and videos published on National Geographic’s blog, "The Plate."

Gallery 31 at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at GW’s Columbian College will open Joseph Asher Hale: "Fathom," a large sculptural installation of an imagined globe that represents the earth 250 million years into the future.

Tony Fratto, former deputy White House press secretary under President George W. Bush, and Barbara Bradley Hagerty, former correspondent for National Public Radio, will join the GW School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) as fellows for the 2014-15 academic year. Both will provide key insights for students and faculty about working in journalism and media.

The historic agreements between The Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art and Design, GW and the National Gallery of Art are now final. With the completion of final transactions, the new partnership to preserve the Corcoran legacy is officially underway.

Leaders of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art and Design, GW and the National Gallery of Art today received approval from the D.C. Superior Court to implement their historic agreements that were first announced in February 2014.

GW was selected by the U.S. Naval Academy to create a graduate program for company officers in their first year of service. The 45-credit Master's in Leadership Education and Development blends courses from the Organizational Sciences Department and the School of Education and Human Development.

Leaders of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art + Design, the National Gallery of Art, and GW signed the final agreements that confirm and formalize the terms of their collaboration.

An international research team—led by University of South Florida paleontologist and GW alumnus Brian Andres, James Clark of the GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and Xu Xing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences—has discovered and named the earliest and most primitive pterodactyloid, Kryptodrakon progenitor.

Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz, B.A. ’24, who saved the lives of 62,000 Jews from Nazi persecution, was posthumously awarded the George Washington University President’s Medal—the highest honor the university president can bestow.

The Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art + Design, the National Gallery of Art and GW announced a proposed collaboration that would safeguard and increase access to the Corcoran’s iconic collection, maintain the historic Corcoran building for an important new program of exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, and strengthen and elevate the Corcoran College and its programs.

A team led by Akos Vertes will receive up to $14.6 million over five years from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop an approach to rapidly identify the root of biological and chemical threats. The researchers are tasked with reducing to 30 days a process that can take years or decades. If successful, the approach could bolster national security efforts to combat these threats.